GOP group wants to be called "centrist" -- "moderate" is now a dirty word

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN: Don't call me moderate, I'm a centrist
By Mark Preston
CNN Political Editor
Friday, July 28, 2006

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A word of advice if you speak to leaders of the Republican Main Street Partnership. Do not use the word moderate when talking about the organization's politics.

Members prefer being described as centrists, because the moderate tag conjures up thoughts of abortion and gay rights. And Main Street does not take a position on either of these issues.

Instead, the group of over 60 governors, representatives and senators advocates reducing the deficit, cutting taxes, focusing on education as well as environmentally friendly measures. The organization released its "Promise for America" agenda yesterday.

The battle of ideas within the Republican Party has not always been easy for Main Street members, who sometimes find themselves at odds with their own leadership. The latest disagreement was over President Bush's veto of stem cell legislation.

Rep. Tom Davis (R-Virginia), who serves as president of the organization, called it "a bad issue to make your first veto" in a recent meeting with a small group of political reporters. But Davis, a former National Republican Congressional Committee chairman, was very careful not to criticize Bush or Congressional Republican leaders, who are now pushing socially conservative measures under the "American Values Agenda," banner....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/28/mg.fri/index.html

[LincolnMcGrath]

1. Interesting, given that some folks are also running from the word centrist

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. Yeah, what was the name of the other group that said this same thing?

Earlier this week, I think... what was it... it's on the tip of my tongue....

[MissMarple]

3. Oh, the Curse of the Scarlet Letter. R

R is for rabid, for reprehensible, for rat faced reprobate. You can't distance yourselves too far from this, shallow Republican shills, you are still RESPONSIBLE for this damn mess.

[niyad]

4. I don't give a DAMN what they WANT to be called, I will continue to

call them what they are: lying, thieving, war-mongering, women-hating, contemptuous, pandering pukes.

please feel free to remind me what adjectives I have overlooked in my annoyance.